Yesterday, a friend of mine who is trying to lose weight, knowing that I've lost a lot of weight over the past year, decided to ask me for dietary advice. He informed me that instead of eating fast food for lunch like usual, he's been packing two or three peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and eating those instead. I must have winced as he told me this, because he said, "Well, what kind of meals do you eat?"

I told him that I had had a large plate of muscles for lunch that day with a salad, and that most mornings I like to have a three-egg omelette with peppers, tomatos, onion, some cheese, and sometimes bacon. His reply: "So basically what your saying is that you're going to die of a heart attack. That's the last time I ask you for dietary advice."

Before I heard about PB my nutritionist told me to eat meals that are 50% Carbs, I substituted that 50% for veges. I also used to eat at least 8 slices of bread a day as snacks.

She told me to make sure that I eat wholegrain bread, because "the little 'bits' in there will make you feel fuller, and they have more nutrients than normal bread". She got one thing right; the little bits make me feel fuller because they are harder to digest. Well, they are harder to digest, but they don't make me feel fuller. I still ended up eating about 5 sandwhiches each day in addition to meals, and still felt hungry.

This was on what has become my final appointment with her. Days later I found MDA and a few days later I started primal.

Ugh, tell me about it Heather!
My boyfriend doesn't go on about what I eat because I will eat some bread and pasta when I'm at his house to make it easier on his mum when cooking, but I showed him the forum thinking he's be all for it and now he's terrified I'm going to get fitter than him. He's not very fit in the first place for understandable medical reasons, but a little support would be nice. When I told him I'd FINALLY found a way to shift my belly pudge?
'But I LIKE it! Girls without a bit of pudge on them don't look human'
*headdesk*

How many of his 'understandable medical reasons' could be helped by switching to primal/paleo eating?

How many of his 'understandable medical reasons' could be helped by switching to primal/paleo eating?

Anxiety, panic attacks, agroaphobia, manic depression... The majority of them. I've told him but 'It's a lifestyle change. I don't do lifestyles.' It's doing my head in because I know it would help but I can't force him x] When he can finally manage to come back to my house (We live about 20 miles apart, and he had a relapse back in September so he can't go to far from his house) he'll have to eat primal while he's here though, so I'm hoping he gets better soon x]

GotD: When you have a brand new pullup bar and can't use it for a few days because you overdid it on the day it arrived. -_- God dammit, shoulders, recover already! I wasn't even on it for a minute! ¬_¬